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Elemental Archangels
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Origin Late nineteenth century, in the rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1888.
Elemental Archangels assigns one archangel to each of the four classical elements, a pairing developed mainly in ceremonial magic and modern Wiccan practice. The same archangels carry quite different roles in the older Abrahamic sources they are drawn from, where an elemental assignment is not part of the original material.
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What Defines This GroupingSourced to the subject's own accountThe four archangels assigned to the classical elements and to the quarters of the ritual circle: Raphael in the east for Air, Michael in the south for Fire, Gabriel in the west for Water, Uriel in the north for Earth. It is a ritual scheme of Western ceremonial magic; no scripture assigns an archangel to an element. 2 Size of the Traditional SetSourced to the subject's own accountFour: one archangel to each of the four classical elements and quarters. 2 Origins
Origin PeriodLate nineteenth century, in the rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1888. 3 Whose Classification This IsThe arrangement is the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's, fixed in its ritual and carried into most later Western ritual magic. The order assembled it from earlier printed sources rather than receiving it from a tradition. 4 Learn More
The Elemental Archangels
This group gathers the elemental archangels, the four archangels assigned to the classical elements of earth, water, air and fire and to the four directions, most familiar from the ritual of ceremonial magic, where they are called to guard the quarters. The four great archangels of Abrahamic tradition are commonly set in this elemental scheme.
The browser will find the archangels linked to the elements. The entries describe each figure and its element, noting the ceremonial and esoteric tradition from which the arrangement comes.
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